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Ear Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
- Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
- Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and…
- Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
- There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,…
- The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
- In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or…
- Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as…
More Ear Quotes
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them… — Dave Barry
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams
- I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink. — Mario Batali
- Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham
- Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin… — Robert Benchley
- Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed… — Mary J. Blige
- To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. — Andrea Bocelli
- Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. — William Jennings Bryan
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the… — Leo Buscaglia
- Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
- When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed… — Maria Callas